Dani Pedrosa is used to playing second fiddle. During his 13-year MotoGP career, the Spanish rider finished second or third in the year-end standings six times. Marc Marquez’s arrival at the Repsol Honda squad in 2013 only cemented Pedrosa’s backseat status. Always the bridesmaid, never the bride, Pedrosa retired from MotoGP without a title to his name in 2018.
That all changed when the Little Samurai assumed a testing role with the Red Bull KTM Factory Racing team in 2019. With the Austrian marque struggling to remain competitive in the hyper-technological Premier Class, Pedrosa’s development input nudged the project in the right direction.
